Softcover Book by Jeff Gibson

A phony-busting glossary of mock psychologistic terms, this homegrown dictionary of delusional states provides a comic but deadly-earnest chronicling of common neuroses and blinding art world ambitions. Ranging in tone from aphoristic truism to wisecracking critique, dupeʼs analytical quips summarily unmask a wide variety of everyday anxieties and ego failures; as a brief sampling reveals: hollow elation: the feigning of pleasure before lackluster art, misconceptualism: the mistaken belief that all concepts are inherently interesting, optical dropout: an evasive gazing upon dead space, pixel anxiety: a fear of poor resolution, stainless zeal: an insincere enthusiasm, leaving no impression.